Uganda law society threatens to sue individual police officers over Torture

Uganda law society threatens to sue individual police officers over  Torture

The uganda law society  led by their leader, Mr Bernard Oundo, reminded the police  how they can be held at risk in their own capacities due to torture  of Ugandans.
“Individual police officers are additionally informed that under section 10 regarding the human rights  enforcement Act, 2019, the law convicts any  public officer, who either exclusively or in conspiracy with others, violates any individual’s privileges and opportunities and legitimate move can be made against such an official as an individual,” the assertion by Ugandan Law Society reads.

In the  past, the police has fiercely broken peaceful shows countrywide, including rallies of opposition women MPs, who were holding  festivals to celebrate the international womens Day in their constituencies.

A portion of the remarkable incidents include capture of 37 medical interns who were last month walking to Parliament from Mulago while fighting delayed deployment. There was additionally police’s fight with people who were exhibiting delayed Prosecution of iron sheets suspects, and Makerere University students who were demostrating what they said were unfair disqualification of their colleague aspiring for   political posts.

Others are 11 female lawyers who were fiercely captured in Kampala last week as they calmly walked to express the injustice  in how their partners, for example, the Buvuma Islands Region woman MP, Ms Suzan Nakaziba Mugabi, were captured by the police.
The 11 female MPs were bailed out by Speaker of Parliament Anita Among after she reached the central Police headquarters where the MPs had been detained.

In march, the Constitutional Court suppressed Segments 5 and 10 of the Public Order Management Act that restricted unapproved meetings and public gatherings.

The court went with the choice while thinking about a lawbreaker body of evidence against the leader of Resistance Public Solidarity Stage (NUP) party, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, otherwise known as Bobi Wine, for having partaken in exhibitions against high expenses in 2018.
The choice of the court implied that no individual could be criminally charged for engaging in a quiet demostration without first looking for consent from the inspector general of police.
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But shortly after the said judgment, the police came out to say there were more laws that they could rely on to break up “unauthorised” assemblies.
“This doesn’t mean that the police don’t have powers to regulate unlawful assemblies. The law provides for the regulation of illegal assemblies under the Penal Code Act. Therefore, we still have powers in place to disperse unlawful assemblies and riots,” Mr Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, told journalists, a few days after the Constitutional Court decision on Public Order Management Act.

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